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istacy\ | v I *% f irM rITBroadwaythem and whose futurerose-coloredth ro ughrial.n,xte-stofand SideStreetsiV1-idl-fc»in‘d•etois0.AND DOWN BROADWAYy JACK GRAVER United Press Drama Editor New York (UP) — A gentle, sentimental little play of the old days and the old loyalties is “Come What May,’ the chronicle of an “average*' American family from the nostalgic nineties to the recent past. There is a tear and a sigh in it, and it is too bad there is riot more excitement.they view glasses.This last scene makes you wonder what was in the author's mind whet) he wrote it. For the entire play he has gone along writing of his characters with a loving regard and withnever a word or line fashioned with tongue in cheek. Suddenly he has his aging couple talking about a future' in which there will be no more wari-Richard F. Flournoy has written a drama that has the proper elements, but he has failed to instill the spark that thrills. You can not help thinking as you see it that he could have done better; Grave injustice to the author and play has been done by certain of the critical brethren, who. no doubt dulled by the narcotic of Spring, have compared it unfavor-d I ably to Noel Coward’s equally senti-n I mental but tremendously stirring Cavalcade.”0i-or economic troubles. Had it been written in 1928 the viewpoint wouh have been acceptable, but obviouslj it was written in more recent turbulent times. Possibly he hoped the sarcastic touch would teach his audiences a lesson.Skelly does some fine work as Chet especially as the character becomes older. He has the good fortune to have Mary Philips playing opposite him. Granville Bates as the family doctor is quite in character and Robert Sloane gives a good performance as a wayward brother. Juvenile characters are played well byStanton Bier, Robert Mayors and Harry Clancy.dStars in CourtiesIIdnAbout the only real similarity is that both plays cover the same period of years. In actual viewpoint they are totally different. “Come What May” being the story of a family, and “Cavalcade, although using families as the means, being the biography of a nation.Hal Skelly, the amiable clown who is sometimes a fine actor, turns producer to present this play with himself in the leading role. Chet Harrison is a young typesetter getting a start in 1896. He courts and marriesethe girl of his dreams, the change from bachelqr to benedict cheating him of a couple of cherished ambitions and setting him definitely in the path of the “average” man who makes the best he can out of liIittfHe goes to the Spanish American War just before the birth of his son. Returned, he finds himself also responsible for the rearing of his wife’s small brother, who grows to dissolute manhood and has a son who in turn has to be raised by Chet and his wife. Temporarily Chet if a victim of technological unemployment in 1907 when the linotype supplants the typesetter, but he gets back on his feet. His son, grown to young man-.iood with a promising career as an artist, becomes a soldier in the World War and dies in hattle The lastThrust into a real life role. Constance Talmadge, screen star to red in New Yorkscene, in 1928, depicts the middle aged couple contemplating a world which they believe has net been toork Federal Court as she testified during trial of Joseph Harrimam, charged with misapplication of funds In defunct bank bearing his name. The star testified shenever authorised withdrawal of *3012.50 from her
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South Haven Daily Tribune
South Haven, Michigan, US
Sat, May 26, 1934
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